This is a nice little 1967 action picture starring Lee Marvin and directed by John Boorman, the sick fuck who made the movie deliverance I think you know what I’m talking about, oink oink.
Lee Marvin plays Walker. Not Walker the Texas Ranger, this walker is a Badass criminal type who is betrayed by his partner and his wife and left for dead. But he resurfaces, sees his wife die of a drug overdose and then works his way through his ex-partner and a crim corporation called The Organization, trying to get back the $93,000 that was stolen from him. As you can tell the plot is very similar to 1999 Outlaw Award winner Payback. There is even one scene in Payback that seems to be a direct lift from Point Blank, and believe it or not alot of the characters even have the same last names! An even stranger coincidence is that both films are based on the same book, “The Hunter” by Richard Stark. I mean what are the chances of something like that happening it boggles the mind, in my opinion.
I would like to thank my bud for recommending this picture saying that I would like it because it is kind of the same story as Payback but with filmatic language along the lines of fellow 1999 Outlaw Award winner The Limey. And it’s true, the editing especially, it jumps around and flashes back in the same way that The Limey does and I think it was probaly an influence. The setting and just the whole tone remind me of The Limey too but The Limey is not based on “the Hunter” unless it was uncredited. Not sure how that works that it is the same as Payback and The Limey but Limey is not the same as Payback. (more…)
